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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by lokar on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:58PM (#25735504)
But, AIUI, this content has been "slipping through" their moderation for a long time (and getting worse) and they did nothing.

So, infective moderation combined with apparent indifference.

Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by jlkuester7 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:05PM (#25735655)
Right I am not disagreeing with this at all. I am just trying to say that "infective moderation combined with apparent indifference" seems less extreme than DailyStormer-style intentional promotion of violent content.

There is still a long ways to go from "infective moderation combined with apparent indifference" to "effective moderation" or even to "infective moderation that we are attempting to fix". But somewhere between "apparent indifference" and "attempting to fix" is a nasty grey area that you don't want to be caught in.